The Cycling News forum is still looking to add volunteer moderators with. If you're interested in helping keep our discussions on track, send a direct message to
In the meanwhile, please use the Report option if you see a post that doesn't fit within the forum rules.
Thanks!
Gent - Wevelgem
Amstel Gold Race
La Flèche Wallonne
Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian - San Sebastian
Vattenfall Cyclassics
GP Ouest France - Plouay
Top ten places get points as follows:
80 - 60 - 50 - 40 - 30 - 22 - 14 - 10 - 6 - 2
Tour Down Under
Tirreno-Adriatico
Milano-Sanremo
Tour des Flandres -
Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
Paris-Roubaix
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Tour de Romandie
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
Tour de Suisse
Tour de Pologne
Eneco Tour
Giro di Lombardia
The top 5 places in stages or prologues:
6 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1
The top ten in the final classification for these races earn:
100 - 80 - 70 - 60 - 50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10 - 4
Tour de France
The top five places in a stage or prologue earn:
20 - 10 - 6 - 4 - 2
The top twenty in the final classification earn:
200 150 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 24 20 16 12 10 8 6 4
Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana
The top five places in a stage or prologue earn:
16 8 4 2 1
The top twenty in the final classification earn:
170 130 100 90 80 70 60 52 44 38 32 26 22 18 14 10 8 6 4 2
theswordsman said:Rankings and point totals as of March 29.
1 327 caisse d'epargne
2 249 team htc - columbia
3 247 team katusha
4 210 liquigas-doimo
5 209 astana
Polish said:The UCI "Team" classification is a misnomer.
It does not represent the Best Teams - but the best individual efforts.
For example, the "Astana Team" recieved the most points for Paris-Nice.
But that was due to Alberto. The Team actually sucked.
By contrast, the RadioShack Team has won 3 Team Classification in three races III times this year already. The UCI rankings do not care or reflect that
BroDeal said:Every single pro race should have points available, even if it is very few compared to the large races.
ingsve said:+1 This is my big problem with the current World Ranking program. It only includes like 25% of all the races the pro tour teams race in a year or less even. It makes it into a real crapshoot. Also I think it's very stage race heavy. All the monument classics are there but they are alot easier to mess up in my opinion. Look at Cervélo for example. Their classics season might be totally ruined by Hushovds illness and Hausslers injury and that means their strongest part of the year to collect points is severely diminished and Sastre could theoretically be the one to suffer from it.
They should simply bring back the old world ranking which is pretty much the current CQ ranking. That would make it alot more fair over the course of the year.
Publicus said:Because the point system values . . . WINNING more than just hanging around in the top 20. Perhaps if Radio Shack could manage a win, they would be higher in the rankings.
On another note, how is this going to work with the transfer system? Take Astana for example, they get into the Tour next year, but their team will likely be a shell of its former self if AC leaves as expected. And whatever team he goes to either may not be in existence (say the allegedly new Spanish team) or had a crappy year (say he goes to Radio Shack (just for the sake of argument)). I guess the answer is the wild card system, but I wonder if that will affect off season transfer decisions.
mr. tibbs said:My immediate solution would be that the points stay with the rider, so if dude goes to a new team, that new team inherents his points/lack thereof.
Of course, this hurts a team that worked its tail off for one guy to win a big race. If that guy goes to another team next year, he takes the points that the team was instrumental in him earning.
If the points stay with the team, then that's a tool for teams to use in contract negotiations with riders who might want to relocate or ask for more money. "You can leave for more cash if you want, but you know that team isn't going to the Tour and we have all the points you earned."
Conversely, if the points go with the riders, it will be a negotiating tool for them to get more money from their current employer. "Pay up or I'm out and Team X is going to the Tour instead of Team Y."
Polish said:The Points System also devalues the worth of the in-the-trenches watercarrying
domestiques who work their keesters off for zero points.
BroDeal said:Every single pro race should have points available, even if it is very few compared to the large races.